When Catharina Syffer was born in 1732, in Westchester, New York Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Joannis Zyfer, was 33 and her mother, Lea Buys, was 18. She married Hendrick Lammerse on 19 March 1757, in North Tarrytown, Mount Pleasant, Westchester, New York Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She died in 1816, in Tarrytown, Greenburgh, Westchester, New York, United States, at the age of 84.
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English (Yorkshire): of Norman origin, a nickname for a greedy person from Old French saffre ‘glutton’.
South German: topographic name from the field name Saffer, denoting a damp low-lying area.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Safir .
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